Data Engineer & Analyst
Progressive Edge Consulting
- Johannesburg, Gauteng
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Computer Science, Informatics, IT, Stats Degree/ Diploma
- Min 2-4 years experience
- Familiarity with Linux
- Cloud services (Azure, GCP, Huawei)
- Skills that support the environment, the team primarily works within: Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, SQL esp PostgreSQL or PostgreSQL compatible
- Platforms we use: Jupyter family of tools; PowerBI; Google Big Query
- Geospatial knowledge
- Client management skills you will be dealing with our clients
- Portfolio of data science projects that you have worked on and can describe
- Exposure to ML techniques and toolkits desirable
- Advanced Geospatial Analytics skills, especially utilising SQL
- Experience in designing data pipelines and data analytics projects.
- Working in the product space building and developing products you will need to be able to look for opportunities to simplify product & technical design as well as understand spatial-temporal analytics problems of specific domains such as retail and others
- Text processing especially similarity matching,
- Spatial-temporal reasoning
- Curiosity and sense of experimentation
- Geospatial SQL
- PySAL familiarity - geospatial statistics techniques
- Geospatial AI
- Model selection
- RAG, Vector databases, generation of embeddings
- Ability to design and test appropriate ML models, apps and deployments